Which of these clauses are correct?
"People of different kind"
or
"People of different kinds"
A sample sentence:
This brings up the issue of how well our sample represents people of different kind[s].
Learn English – “People of different kind” or “People of different kinds”
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Best Answer
As kind is a countable noun (used in this sense), it must have an article when singular.
So it is either people of different kinds, or people of a different kind.
However whilst the former is used to refer to two or more kinds of people e.g. The anti-EU voters comprise peoples of many different kinds, the latter is used to apply to a single kind of people, who are different to some reference group, or groups e.g. UKIP voters are people of an entirely different kind to all others.